Operations
Cleaning plan: example and template you can use today
A good cleaning plan answers what, where, how often, who and to which result. Here is a concrete example for an office building and a template you can copy.
6 min
Blog
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Quality and standards
How to carry out an INSTA 800 inspection, step by step
From quality profile to approved report: the whole INSTA 800 inspection in seven steps, with sampling, counting per object group and what to do when a room fails.
6 min
Quality and standards
NS-INSTA 800: advantages and disadvantages
INSTA 800 gives objective requirements and fewer arguments. But it needs skills, takes time to inspect and does not measure hygiene. An honest review.
5 min
Quality and standards
INSTA 800 quality levels 1–5: what does level 3 mean in practice?
Levels 1 to 5 decide how many accumulations of dirt are allowed in a room. Here are the levels explained, with level 3 as the running example.
5 min
Quality and standards
What is INSTA 800? The Nordic cleaning quality standard explained
INSTA 800 describes how clean a room must be after cleaning, not how often it is cleaned. Here is the standard explained without the jargon.
5 min
Sales and pricing
From floor plan to price: how to build a cleaning quote in minutes, not days
Upload the floor plan, let the rooms be detected automatically, set room type and frequency, and get an estimate and a quote per room. The whole flow from drawing to signed contract.
8 min
Operations
IoT in cleaning: what the sensors actually solve, and what you save
Tork dispensers, Disruptive sensors, Airthings air monitors and your own booking system. How data becomes cleaning tasks, which rules exist, and a worked example of what needs-based cleaning saves.
9 min
Operations
One-off jobs and temporary services: how to plan, price and invoice them
Deep cleaning, move-out cleaning, window cleaning and extra orders from existing clients. Three kinds of one-off jobs, where they go wrong, and how to run them like your fixed contracts.
7 min
Sales and pricing
Pricing a cleaning contract: how to build a cleaning cost estimate
True hourly cost, productivity rates per room type, frequency and margin. The whole cleaning estimate step by step, with a full worked example for a 1,000 m² office building.
7 min
HSE
Chemical register for cleaning companies: from a binder in the storeroom to an emergency plan in your pocket
What the law requires of chemical registers, exposure records and emergency plans, and how to get it out of the binder: chemicals linked to tasks, per-building overviews and emergency info offline.
8 min
Cleaning app
Checklist: what a cleaning app must be able to do
Ten requirements for the app your cleaners use every day: every phone and tablet, offline, QR check-out with position, time tracking, deviations with photos and site surveys.
7 min